This will be a SLYT long remembered...

January 9, 2013 12:57 PM

Darth Vader has some trouble hearing through his helmet. [SLYT]
posted by AgentRocket (19 comments total)

I stuck with it, and it just got funnier.
posted by oddman at 1:00 PM on January 9, 2013 [2 favorites]

What?!
posted by mazola at 1:02 PM on January 9, 2013

WAT?
posted by Windopaene at 1:05 PM on January 9, 2013

Darth Vader is my grandma?
posted by mazola at 1:09 PM on January 9, 2013

"I stuck with it,......"

You're a better man than I am.....
posted by HuronBob at 1:10 PM on January 9, 2013 [2 favorites]

Wot!
posted by mazola at 1:16 PM on January 9, 2013 [3 favorites]

Perhaps a bit too much Chappelle show for me in the past, but I kept expecting Lord Vader to break out with an "OOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK" at the end.
posted by Debaser626 at 1:22 PM on January 9, 2013 [2 favorites]

This may help explain why Vader seems like a jerk sometimes. This and the Dark Side thing.
posted by MUD at 1:41 PM on January 9, 2013 [2 favorites]

Yeah, I enjoyed that. Got better as it went along.
posted by sharpener at 2:18 PM on January 9, 2013

Ha! That was pretty good.














WHAT?
posted by turgid dahlia 2 at 2:38 PM on January 9, 2013

OH GOD the scenes are out of chronological order DO IT AGAIN RIGHT WAHT
posted by steef at 2:42 PM on January 9, 2013

Are any of you hard of hearing? I didn't think so.

With that out of the way, let me say that this wasn't even creative. Had it been an Emily Litella thing, with Vader misinterpreting everything said to him, it could have been funny. But Nooooo, the best they could do was have some guy (who didn't even sound like Vader) bark "What?" any time someone spoke to him. Lame.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 3:28 PM on January 9, 2013 [1 favorite]

I'm pretty sure that "What??" was lifted directly from a part of Vader's actual dialogue. It definitely sounds like one of the raspier James Earl Jones line readings from the first movie.
posted by Atom Eyes at 3:42 PM on January 9, 2013 [1 favorite]

I'm pretty sure that "What??" was lifted directly from a part of Vader's actual dialogue. It definitely sounds like one of the raspier James Earl Jones line readings from the first movie.

Without pulling out a DVD and checking, but just relying on the damage inflicted by hundreds of hours spent in the Centre Twin Cinemas in 1977, I am pretty sure that relevant word is Vader's reaction when the Millennium Falcon swoops in and takes out his wingmen in the trench.



Anyway, one was missing:

"Dantooine."

"What?"

"They're on Dantooine."
posted by ricochet biscuit at 5:10 PM on January 9, 2013 [2 favorites]

At first I thought it was kinda lame, but I was laughing out loud by the end.
posted by MsVader at 6:32 PM on January 9, 2013

MsVader: "At first I thought it was kinda lame, but I was laughing out loud by the end."

Yeah, well, you gotta live with it, so I guess all you can do is laugh!
posted by barnacles at 7:06 PM on January 9, 2013

There can only be one Vader Sessions.
posted by albrecht at 8:05 PM on January 9, 2013 [2 favorites]

Whaaaat!?
posted by George Lucas at 9:59 PM on January 9, 2013 [1 favorite]

Holy shit. I had to pause :30 in because I could no longer see the screen through tears of laughter. Then I laughed for another two minutes straight, just anticipating what I would see when I unpaused the video. This was intensely funny to me, which may be, in part, due to how thoroughly I know this film (ricochet biscuit is right about the source). I laughed harder and better than I have for a long time. A long time.
Wow. Just: Wow.
posted by LEGO Damashii at 10:48 PM on January 9, 2013